Pacific Asia travel Association (PATA)

Pacific Asia travel Association (PATA): Pacific Asia Association (PASTA) was founded as a non –profit organization. Its objective was to develop, promote and facilities travel to and among the many pacific destinations. The concept of the association was to ensure maximum benefits from concept was founded by Lorrain Thurston, a leading newspaper publisher of Honolulu. His concept of the association was the certain of fresh opportunities and to gain maximum benefits from existing opportunities through milti-media. PATA's first conference was held in January 1952 in Honolulu with 44 Founding Members. Its headquarters was established in san Francisco, USA in 1953. Since 2001c its headquarters has been shifted to Bangkok. Europe office is based in London and Asia office was opened in Manila Philippines in 1976. Regional officers are located at Frankfurt, Singapore and Sydney.
The objective of the Association is to provide the meeting point \for the people involved in different aspects of the travel trade from a large number of countries. It focuses attention on travel opportunity in number of countries and builds up great awareness and specific contacts among the countries.